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If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.

Arthur Golden

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Arthur Golden
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
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World
Geisha
Aren
Woman

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It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.
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I went back to those graves not long afterward and found as I stood there that sadness was a very heavy thing. My body weighed twice what it had only a moment earlier, as if those graves were pulling me down toward them.
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I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.
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No one knows the author of memoir so well like himself.
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At the temple there is a poem called Loss carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it.
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Waiting patiently doesn't suit you. I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds the secret paths no one else has thought about. [Mameha]
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I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us.
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You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you.
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Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away.
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And when I raised myself to look at the man who'd spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall.
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Neither you nor I can know your destiny. You may never know it! Destiny isn't always like a party at the end of the evening. Sometimes it's nothing more than struggling through life from day to day.
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Nothing is as bleak as the future, except the past.
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I've lived my life again just telling it to you.
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Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.
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I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.
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